Presidents
Among the Presidents of ISSS have been foremost scientists from several fields and countries, including some Nobel laureates:
- Gerald Midgley, president elect
- Alexander Laszlo, 2012-13
- David Ing, 2011-2012
- Jennifer Wilby, 2010-2011
- Allenna Leonard, 2009-2010
- Timothy F. H. Allen, 2008-2009
- Gary Metcalf, 2007-2008
- Kyoichi Kijima, 2006-2007
- Debora Hammond, 2005-2006
- Enrique Herrscher, 2004-2005
- Kenneth D. Bailey, 2003
- Alexander Christakis, 2002
- Michael C. Jackson, 2001
- Harold G. Nelson, 2000
- Peter Corning, 1999
- Béla A. Bánáthy, 1998
- G. A. Swanson, 1997
- Yong Pil Rhee, 1996
- Ervin Laszlo, 1995
- J. Donald R. de Raadt, 1994
- Harold A. Linstone, 1993
- Ian I. Mitroff, 1992
- Howard T. Odum 1991
- Len R. Troncale, 1990
- Ilya Prigogine, 1988
- C. West Churchman 1989
- Russell L. Ackoff, 1987
- Peter Checkland, 1986
- John A. Dillon, 1985
- John N. Warfield, 1982
- George Klir, 1981
- Robert Rosen, 1980
- Brian R. Gaines, 1979
- Richard F. Ericson, 1978
- Geoffrey Vickers, 1977
- Heinz von Foerster, 1976
- Kjell Samuelson, 1975
- Gordon Pask, 1974
- James Grier Miller, 1973
- Margaret Mead, 1972
- Stafford Beer, 1971
- Bertram Gross, 1970
- Lawrence Slobodkin, 1969
- Milton Rubin, 1968
- John Milsum, 1967
- Peter Caws, 1966
- Anatol Rapaport, 1965
- W. Ross Ashby 1962-64
- Charles A. McClelland 1959-61
- Kenneth E. Boulding, 1957-58
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